The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Caboose

Sea Terms

Also called galley. A house on deck where the cooking is done. (See Kitchen.)

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2026 Editor's Note: The caboose — the deck cookhouse — went ashore onto the railroad's last car, and into the nursery ('little red caboose'); the galley sense survives in Dutch and Scandinavian harbors. See caboose. (Ed: BR 2026-06-23)

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